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The Story
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Last week
The man lived among the tombs
He lived in a world of death
He lived in a culture of death
He was experiencing spiritual death by the demonic powers
Yet, Jesus did not leave him in this state of death, he did not leave him to live among the tombs.
Jesus came and resurrected the man.
He redeemed him from the death that had enslaved him.
He then sent him out to testify concerning the power of the gospel, the power and mercy of Jesus is what gave this man new life.
Spiritually and symbolically he went from death to life.
Now Jesus travels back to the western side of the Sea of Galilee and Mark tells us a fascinating account of Jesus again bringing two people, two daughters, from death to life.
Sandwich
Mark weaves two stories together in our passage this morning
The story of Jairus’s daughter and the woman with the issue of blood
He begins with Jairus then moves to the story of the woman only to then return to Jairus
These two stories work together in such a way that in all reality there are not two stories, but one.
They cannot be seperated but together shows us the beautiful and powerful truth of the gospel of Christ.
So first lets look at Jairus’ Plea
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He is a ruler of the synogogue
He is a public figure, respected and honored.
He had a family, he had a home, he had servents
It would have been an act of humilation for someone like Jairus to come and bow down before Jesus, who did not have the best repuration in the Synogogues, and ask him to heal his daughter
The Text gives us Jairus’s name, while the woman is left unnamed.
The woman is an outcast,
she had no social status and no privilege
The woman had a physical disease that has left her as an outsider, she is unclean, polluted, and untouchable
If she was married at one point, the fact that she has had this issue of blood for 12 years would have driven off her husband for he could never even touch his wife, lest he becomes unclean himself.
The woman had no money, for she spent it all on doctors and physicians hoping that she could be heald.
The woman was clearly in a different
We see that Jairus comes to Jesus in public, and asks Jesus in front of everyone to heal is daughter - yet afterwords he is told to keep the healing a secret
the woman comes in secret, not wanting to be noticed - yet Jesus brings her into the open
What we find in the story is that Jesus’ love is not based upon social status.
His love for all people, whether a demon possessed gentile living among the tombs, or a religious leader, or a sick outcast woman, each are deeply loved, and each fall down before Jesus in need of rescue.
And Jesus, not being a respecter of persons, not over looking the woman nor the demon possessed man because of their social statusss, brings salvation to their broken state.
Jairus’ Plea
The woman has heard that Jesus has been able to help people who are physically sick.
She has faith in Jesus and knows that he can heal her sickness
Mark 5:21-
Notices that Jairus, though a ruler of the Synogogue, assumes the same posture as the demon possessed man in the previous story.
He runs to Jesus and falls down at his feet.
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Jairus, a panicked father, willing to do anything to save his little girl runs to Jesus, the one who has shown time and again that he is able to heal people from their disease.
And he bows down before him and begs him to save his little girls life.
Jairus, a paniced father, willing to do anything to save his little girl runs to Jesus, the one who has shown time and again that he is able to heal people from their disease.
And he bows down before him and begs him to save his little girls life.
He says, “my little daughter is at the point of death.
Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”
Jairus knows!
He knows that Jesus is the source of life, he knows that Jesus has the power to save his little girl, he knows that there is something special about Jesus.
So he comes to him and begs him to save his little girl.
What a great example!
We get used to hearing that Jesus is the answer to this and that.
To the point that culturally such a truth is often deemed as insensitive or illtimed.
Yet, as believers living among the tombs we KNOW that there is only one hope for a sick and dying soceity, and that is the hope of King Jesus!
And like Jairus came begging Jesus on behalf of his daughter, so we must run to the feet of Jesus begging him for healing on behalf of loved ones, our familes, our firends, our coworkers, our city, our soceity, our country.
We do this because we know, like Jairus knew, that hope is only found in Jesus.
So here he comes, begging Jesus to go with him on behalf of his daughter.
Jesus agree’s and goes with him.
imagine the site - Jairus pushing the crowd out of the way trying to hurry because for his daughter, death is at the door.
This is priority number one for Jairus - Get Jesus to his daughter!
Mark 5:
This crowd must have been very frustrating for Jairus as his heart is racing to get Jesus back to his house.
The crowd is doing nothing but slowing things down.
Now the intensity of this scene should not be overlooked.
The desperate state of Jairus
The need to get Jesus to his daughter
And the crowd being an obstacle slowing things down.
And then something happens…
Some woman reaches out and touches Jesus’ garment and everything changes.
Jesus is distracted, asking the question, “who touched me?”
Mark 5:
Clearly his disciples think Jesus is acting weird.
They said, Jesus, “you see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
This would be like a rugby player from the bottom of the scrum asking, “who touched me?”
Jesus stops and looks around to see who it was that touched him
And then this woman comes forward
Mark 5:
She is terrified about what might happen - but she tells him the whole truth.
Could you imagine Jairus’ anxiety at this point.
Already in a hurry and frustrated by the crowd, and now Jesus stops to talk to some woman who touched him.
So who was this woman?
- we get some background on this woman in verses 25-29
Mark 5:25-
The Woman
We don’t know the womans name, we don’t know
She is known for having an issue of blood for 12 years
For twelves years this poor woman has suffered.
She has suffered physically, she has suffered socially, and she has suffered financially.
Physically she has been suffered from this disease.
The constent flow of blood would cause her to be weak, never at full strenth.
It would have affected her ability to work, to serve and to operate at her full potential.
Financially this woman has spent her last dollar on docters and physicians.
Yet, to not avil, her condition only worsened.
Socially she was an outcast,
Unable to be healed by doctors
she was ritually unclean which mean that she was not able to come to the temple,
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